Yes, I know, I know: for some reason, many folks have agreed that this movie is great. Wonderful. Almost a classic… Beats me why. I watched it a couple of days ago and found it very average.
Sally and Harry meet for the first time as college students, then life …

“Last September” (2000) takes place in the large country Irish estate of Sir Richard Naylor and Lady Myra Naylor (Maggie Smith) in the early 1920s. Although claiming to support the Irish cause of independence the ennobled Naylors live a life that is much more English than Irish.
The movie …

The Back-Up Plan starring Jennifer Lopez and Alex O’Loughlin has a catchy subtitle: fall in love. get married. have baby Not necessarily in that order. The thing is, that because movies have to happen in less than a few hours, and the time span of this particular movie has …

Apocalypto, directed by Mel Gibson, also written by Mel Gibson and Farhad Safinia is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for sequences of graphic violence and disturbing images. The original release date was December 8, 2006 for United States audience. This movie falls in the genre …

The movie “Overboard” with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell is one of my favorite movies. I am not one to watch the same movie over and over again, but this is one of those few movies that I can watch time and again on television without getting bored. …

Directors: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino. Featuring: Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson,
Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hartnett, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis and Elijah Wood.
There is no city more corrupt than Sin City ( the actual name is Basin city). In Sin City everyone must stand …

This movie just came out a month or so ago, I believe (2009). I went to see on the Fourth of July with my family. Although I am a bit old for these movies (Up was meant for kids), I thought it was an amazing movie. I enjoyed the …

When my kids first heard about the LEGO Movie it was all they would talk about for weeks. I have to admit that even though I tried to act cool about it, I was pretty excited too. This movie had an all-star cast with everyone from Morgan Freeman to …

Insurgent, based on the book of the same name by Veronica Roth, is the sequel to 2014’s Divergent. From the trailers shown, I had hopes that the film would be better than the first. However, it ultimately falls short of expectations and represents a step back for the franchise.

Insurgent starts …

We Are Marshall, directed by McG is rated PG by the Motion Picture Assocation of America and stars Matthew McConaughey as Jack Lengyel.
Based on true life events, this movie portrays the events that followed a tragic plane crash that killed tho entire football team, coaches and players of Marshall …

The new Indiana Jones flick did well at the box office and for good reason. It’s a nice compliment to the old trilogy, but I have to say, I hope they don’t make a fifth Indy film.
Diehard Spielberg fans (if those exist) won’t be disappointed (and neither will the …

I like comedy movie, it can refresh my mind and make me laugh. Last night I saw this movie, Big Fat liar on Tv. It’s a comedy and family movie, starring by Frankie Muniz as Jason Shepherd, Paul Giamatti as Marty Wolf and. Amanda Bynes as Kaylee.
The story is …

When I first saw Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom back in 1984, I was disappointed. It had none of the exciting elements that made Raiders so successful. The biggest missing elements are the supporting cast. Brody was clearly a mentor to Dr. Jones. And Marion, the love …

The Good Girl shows Jennifer Anniston at her finest, I think. Jennifer Anniston plays Justine, a married woman working at a small town, dumpy store the equivalent of a Wal Mart. Justine does cosmetics, and makes other women beautiful. Justine doesn’t feel so beautiful, however, and it is apparent …

A Good Year is a real feel good film, just like the title suggests. Russell Crow plays the lead and I actually like him in this film. He does a great English accent and plays a hard hearted, workaholic, money hungry city trader to perfection. His character doesn’t seem …

Reservoir Dogs is a gory, violent, shocking film about a group of men who make plans and then carry out a robbery. There is an all star cast with Tim Roth, Chris Penn and Harvey Keitel. What the robbers don’t count on is that an undercover cop is part …

Keifer Sutherland plays a burnt out air traffic controller in the movie Ground Control. Henry Fonda plays a mechanic in the air traffic control tower who is trying to keep the system running with duct tape and bailing wire. Once Jack Harris was the best air traffic controller …

This adorable family classic brings the haunted house to a whole new level. Beautifully animated, it was nominated for an Academy Award and produced by the brilliant Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg.
DJ Walters (Mitchel Musso) has a morbid fascination with the creepy house across the street, and its owner, …

I must say that I did not completely look forward to the film The Incredible hulk. This is because the first film in the series was pretty awful. There are a lot of things the Hulk can be, but boring is definitely not one of them. So, when …

I watched this movie called hangman a couple of years ago on lifetime. Overall it was a pretty good movie. It had a good story to it and a good plot to it. The acting was good and it kept me interested. It entertained me throughout the whole movie. …

Domino, directed by Tony scott is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for strong violence, pervasive language, sexual content/nudity and drug use. The original release date was October 14, 2005 for United States audience. This movie falls in the gener of Action/Crime/Drama/Thriller and stars Keira Knightley …

I am reviewing the basketball movie, Glory Road, starring Josh Lucas. There’s a basketball coach. He teaches girls. Then one day he is offered a job to teach in Texas. It is the 1960s. He decides to get a group of African American players together and form …

I read a novelization of the popular biblical tale of the Exodus last week. I was deeply astonished at how EPIC it was. Years prior, there was a Ridley Scott film that tackled the same subject for which I ignored because of the small ratings it got from critics.
However, …

Nothing may sound like nothing, but the Nothing DVD is full of everything. It’s a well packaged DVD with a couple of extras to make buying the product worthwhile.
The movie Nothing stars David Hewlett, known best for Stargate Atlantis. It also stars Andrew Miller. The two …

It took a long time for me to watch Shawn of the Dead, because I thought it would simply be one of those stupid satires on horror movies, similar to Scary Movie and its sequels, and I am not very fond of those films. But, a few years ago, …

Movies about penguins seem to have come out of nowhere in the recent months. With the obsession over March of the Penguins and the glee over Happy Feet, people are fascinated by penguins and the rituals surrounding them as they grow up.
An approximation of the true nature of how …

Joe Torre is the Manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers
How does a coach lead his team to 12 straight Playoff appearances and several World Series Championships and get fired? Well he could work for the tyrannical George Steinbrenner of the NY Yankees. What did …

The 1996 movie “The English Patient” won nine Oscars and was nominated for three more. The movie won as Best Picture and Juliette Binoche won best supporting actor for Binoche. Kristin Scott Thomas lost as best actress to Frances Mcdormand and her campy portrayal of a pregnant police officer in …

This is an animation movie by Pixar Animation which features a robot named Wall-E. Every picture of Pixar is focused on a central character which stirs a wave of appreciation whenever it is introduced. Wall-E, I feel is the cutest of all the characters that I have seen till …

I saw The Good Guy at the recommendation of a close friend who absolutely loved it. She did preface it with the fact that she did not really know why she loved it so much but something about it really stuck with her. Also, it helped that she had …

I watched this movie a few Saturdays ago with two other members of my family, and even though I thought it could have been a little better, it certainly surpassed my expectations of what it might have been like. Based on the ads of it that I saw on …

I don’t ever recall seeing an Audrey Hepburn movie in TCM —“ the channel for classic films. Since the movies shown in the channel are largely MGM titles, my theory tells me Audrey Hepburn had simply not played any motion picture produced by this grand movie empire. …

I saw that Mena Suvari (of American Beauty) and Breckin Meyer were in this offbeat comedy. I thought it would be more about a diner with quirky characters. But it’s actually about a trendy looking café in London with quirky characters. The story itself …

The Interview stars Seth Rogen and James Franco and was directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. James Franco plays a celebrity journalist who is good at his job. He even has Kim Jong Un as a fan, which is how he lands an interview with the …

I will never get bored watching this classic movie cum thriller romance called Vertigo. There is something hauntingly chilling but at the same time giving a nice feeling of romance after my each time watching this movie. Alfred Hitchcock was a real genius and it’s kind of sad …

This movie is about a war veteran who was blinded in the line of duty by a grenade blast that went off directly in front of him. He is taught by the locals to use his blindness to his advantage and they also taught him how to use the …

I’ve been getting a little burnt out on Owen Wilson comedies so I didn’t know what to think when I finally watched Wedding Crashers for the first time. It was hillarious.
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn make a great team, pretending to be related to the wedding parties so they …

When there were rumors about this movie coming out, I was pretty sketpical on how well it could be done. Yeah special effects have come a long way in the past few years and we have computer graphics that make the most outlandish things appear real, but could the …

Sci-fi movies for me are so formulaic. I watch one sci-fi movie, I can say that I have watched almost 90% of all the sci-fi flicks that were released in the past years because of it. Sci-fi movies with aliens are more predictable and repetitive. Aliens terrorize the human …

I brought Eeyan and Natasha, my 2 cute nephew and niece, respectively to watch Kung Fu Panda (2008). It was real super fun and we had a great time. The thing was that I was supposed to go with my date on that day, this 26 year …

Bill Murray stars as a weatherman with a nasty temperment…he’s miserable and grumpy. Having to go to a small town to give a weather report on weather it will continue to snow or not, based on the shadow of Phil the Groundhog, he finds this the worst day of …

There was much hype over this movie and it was the highly rented movie.Only last month i was able to rent this movie.I have already read the book by Dan brown.i dont think this movie is well translated.If you haven’t read the book before sure it wont …

Another good good good!
Another topnotch of Ghibli stuff. This is is one of the romance movie I have seen without cliche and it tackles so much about life in a very simple way. Though its an old movie it definitely deserves a second look.
Hayao Miyazaki is one of …

The Sixth Sense (1999) is a suspense film by M. Night Shymalan and is rated PG-13 by the MPAA
The Sixth Sense is the story of Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Bruse Willis), a child psychologist that is now haunted by the sudden reappearance and suicide of a former patient who blames …

What is there to not love about a movie with a dynamite cast, amazingly relatable and entertaining plot, and an ending that leaves viewers feeling warm and fuzzy and hopeful for their own futures. If you haven’t already guessed, I am talking about the 1988 film, “Mystic Pizza” starring …

The Tattooist is a horror movie/drama starring Jason Behr. The actor plays an American tattoo artist who spent most of his adult life traveling around the world and giving tattoos. He is actually well known but many people say that he stole another artist’s designs to become famous. In …

A film by Kurosawa made in the 1950s during the first of his “artistic peaks”, that is said to have inspired George Lucas a lot when he wrote Star Wars. A princess a and a military officer is running away from enemies together. On the way they meet two …

I watched this movie on lifetime move network today. Overall it was pretty good. The actors were really good in it, and they had more than one actor that was good. A lot of times in the life time movie networks there are only one good actor in the …

The Parent Trap stars Lindsay Lohan as Annie James and Halie Parker. These twos are a set of twins seperated at birth by two parents who live in two different countries and could not get along. Now at age 11 they meet by chance at a summer camp for …

At the time of its release, many critics were apt to complain about the casting of Grease. They thought that the ages of the actors, playing much younger characters, was a hindrance and that the film would suffer. The huge box office that this fun and extremely lovable film …